Fibre-optic cables are producing a vast increase in the amount of bandwidth available. Made of glass so pure that a sheet of it 70 miles thick would be as clear as a window-pane, and the solitary strand of optical fibre the width of a human hair can carry 1,000 times as much information as all radio frequencies put together. This expansion of bandwidth is what is making two-way communication, or interactivity, possible.
Neither digitization nor fibre optics is new. But it was only this year that America's two biggest cable-TV owners, TCI and Time Warner , said they would spend $2 billion and $5 billion respectively to deploy both technologies in their systems, which together serve a third of America's 60m cable homes. Soon, some TCI subscriptions will be wired to receive 500 channels rather than the customary 50; Time Warner will launch a trail full-service network in Florida with a range of interactive services.
These two announcements signaled the start of a mad multimedia scramble in America, home market to many of the world's biggest media, publishing, telecoms and computer companies, almost all of which have entered the fray. The reasons are simple: greed and fear: greed for new sources of revenue; fear that profits from current businesses may fall as a result of reregulation or cut-throat competition.
Multimedia has already had a profound affect on how these businesses interact with one another. Mergers such as Time Warner, Turner Broadcasting, and Paramount have set the stage. These companies continue the race to be the first to lay solid infrastructure, and set new industry standards. Following in the shadows will be mergers between: software, film, television, publishing, and telephone industries, each trying to gain market share in the emerging market.
So far, most firms have rejected the hostile takeovers that marked the media business in the 1980s. Instead, they have favored an array of alliances and joint ventures akin to Japan's loose-knit Keiretsu business groupings.
The amount of multimedia use for websites vary base on what kind of website they are. As an example we view 3 websites that vary the level of use in multimedia. One of the sites that use heavy multimedia is kill-bill.com. ... An example of site that features a moderate use of multimedia we choose beautybar.com. ... The use of Multimedia must depend on the type of website that is being featured. ...
In today's world, the use of multimedia is becoming more and more prevalent in society than ever. ... It takes a lot of time and effort to put together a very good multimedia piece. ... Today, there are different software applications to create multimedia rich pieces. ... The development of storyboards is a very important process in the development of multimedia. ... This is a serious issue for all multimedia developers (Riley 11). ...
1.0 Aims and Objectives The subject of this report is to analyse the impact of multimedia on the computer games industry, the primary focus will be based on how multimedia was used during the early days of the computer games market, and it's constant evolution to the games we see today. 2.0 Introduction Computer games in general have come a long way since I was a child, but they have always incorporated interactive multimedia. ... Since then, several technical innovations have changed the face of multimedia, and the following sections will highlight those changes in more detail. ...
By looking at reasons why multimedia training has become so popular and also investigating some recent trends in multimedia training, I will attempt to answer these questions. ... The first benefit to multimedia training is cost. ... With multimedia training, this is simply not true. ... George Roughan, president of Chimera Multimedia Productions, say of the multimedia programs he has developed, "With multimedia interactive training we can model or create the perfect instructional environment better than with any other method, short of one-to-one apprenticeship. ... Despite all of these be...
Are computers' new teaching methods such as Hypermedia, and multimedia making the learning process too quick by avoiding what really matters in the proper teaching method? ... In correlation with the abusive use of hypermedia and multimedia, computers ability to speed up the learning process can be more harmful than foreseen. ... If we do, the drilling reading in an age of multimedia is a waste of time" cant be far behind" (275). ... This is rather disturbing, because the ability to read is the most important part of learning, sure a computer can show you with multimedia but it ...
Electronic mail and multimedia technologies promote communication and interactions between diverse groups, with the purpose of helping the students learn more about the content they study in subject areas such as social studies, science, psychology, and even foreign language (Anderson, 1998; Baugh & Baugh, 1997; Cifuentes & Murphy, 2000; Cifuentes, Murphy, & Davis, 1998; Freedman & Liu, 1996; Roach, 1998; Sernak & Wolfe, 1998). ... Multimedia presentations and distance learning technologies are being used to establish learning exchanges between students of diverse cultural backgrounds an...
Available within the constraints of the individual companies - and the CD-ROM, also referred to as multimedia. ... "Multimedia is one of the most flexible forms of individual training (books are the other). ... Internet and Intranet The Internet and Intranet offer the same training advantages as the CD-ROM or multimedia training. ... Its major advantage over multimedia is the ease in which information could be created, revised and updated. ... Additionally, the Internet drastically reduces the cost involved with producing and distributing multimedia. ...
Available Training Tools CD-ROM or Multimedia I shall begin with a brief description of the technology currently available for training. ... "Multimedia is one of the most flexible forms of individual training (books are the other). ... Internet and Intranet The Internet and Intranet offer the same training advantages as the CD-ROM or multimedia training. ... Its major advantage over multimedia is the ease in which information could be created, revised and updated. ... Additionally, the Internet drastically reduces the cost involved with producing and distributing multimedia. ...
The fact is that violence in today's multimedia has drastically numbed people's view on real life violence. ... The most common source of violence in multimedia is found in the television. ... The final point to finding violence in multimedia lies in the world of videogames. ... Games are like any of the other types of multimedia that contain violence. ... Multimedia, in general, has changed drastically, from technology to content. ...
